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Morden's European Map from Geography Rectified: or a Description of the World, printed in 1700 Morden and Philip Lea's 1695 map of Tartary, dedicated to the 'Great Czar of Moscovie' Robert Morden (c. 1650 – 1703) was an English bookseller, publisher, and mapmaker, globemaker and engraver. He was among the first successful commercial map makers.
Britannia is the title of each of three atlases created in England the late 16th and mid 18th centuries, describing some or all of the British Isles. These are the books published by William Camden (in 1586, reprinted 1693) and Richard Blome (in 1673) and John Ogilby (in 1675).
Cox's major work was Magna Britannia [2] [3] (this identification from the British Museum Catalogue has been queried, however). [4] Richard Gough said that this work was originally published in monthly numbers as a supplement to the five volumes of Atlas Geographus (Herman Moll, 1711–17). It contains only the English counties.
Robert Morden, in his 1680 Geography Rectified, introduced his map and chapter detailing the British Isles by noting their political unity under a single monarch but their continued separation into three kingdoms, with each of the British Isles beyond Great Britain and Ireland belonging to one of the three mainland kingdoms. [158]
Ann Lea, sometimes "Anne", (1661–1728) was a British lithographer, map and globe seller and publisher in London.She prepared maps for several works including Christopher Saxton's The Traveller's Guide being the best map of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales (20 sheets) and Robert Morden's A new mapp of the West-Indies, or the islands of America 1702.
He was a prolific printer and reviser of maps, frequently collaborating with other contemporary mapmakers (or buying their plates from them and creating updated editions) including Herman Moll, Robert Morden (with whom he sold globes), John Ogilby, and John Seller.
Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804 Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831 A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786 Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
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